Creator: Michael Tudor Barnes
Publication date: 2005-08
List Price: $61.95
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Review Slide Rule / ISIS Audio Books:Nevil Shute's autobiographical work charts his selected remembrances from childhood to 1938. The parallels between Shute's life and his fiction can be seen: airship engineering, the new industry of commercial aircraft and his experience of civil servants and bureaucratic military agencies.
Creator: Deborah Gray White
Publication date: 2008-05-01
Dewey code: 398.208996073
List Price: $59.95
Price: $59.95
Review Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (Gender and American Culture) / The University of North Carolina Press:The field of black women's history gained recognition as a legitimate field of study late in the twentieth century. Collecting stories that are both deeply personal and powerfully political, Telling Histories compiles seventeen personal narratives by leading black women historians at various stages in their careers. Their essays illuminate how-first as graduate students and then as professional historians-they entered and navigated the realm of higher education, a world concerned with and dominated by whites and men. In distinct voices and from different vantage points, the personal histories revealed here also tell the story of the struggle to establish a new scholarly field. Black women, alleged by affirmative-action supporters and opponents to be "twofers," recount how they have confronted racism, sexism, and homophobia on college campuses. They explore how the personal and the political intersect in historical research and writing and in the academy. Organized by the years the contributors earned their Ph. D. 's, these essays follow the black women who entered the field of history during and after the civil rights and black power movements, endured the turbulent 1970s, and opened up the field of black women's history in the 1980s. By comparing the experiences of older and younger generations, this collection makes visible the benefits and drawbacks of the institutionalization of African American and African American women's history. [+]Telling Histories captures the voices of these pioneers, intimately and publicly. Contributors: Mia Bay, Rutgers University Elsa Barkley Brown, University of Maryland Leslie Brown, Washington University, St. Louis Crystal N. Feimster, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sharon Harley, University of Maryland Wanda A. Hendricks, University of South Carolina Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University Chana Kai Lee, University of Georgia Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University Nell Irvin Painter, Newark, New Jersey Merline Pitre, Texas Southern University Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago Julie Saville, University of Chicago Brenda Elaine Stevenson, University of California, Los Angeles Ula Taylor, University of California, Berkeley Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Morgan State University Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University.
Publication date: 2006-10-09
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $24.95
Price: $57.00
Review At the Foot of Rawlins Mountain / PublishAmerica:The tiny island of Nevis in the Eastern Caribbean is a former British colony once known as the Queen of the Caribees. The 36-square-mile tropical isle retains much of its pristine beauty and remains a favorite place for the more discerning of tourists. However, there is a side of Nevis that the tourists never see. The author presents this Nevis through a series of vignettes, as she experienced life growing up on this island paradise, and the traumatic events that caused her eventually to leave home.
Publication date: 2002-12-28
Dewey code: 973.917092
List Price: $87.00
Price: $80.70
Review Jewish First Wife, Divorced: The Correspondence of Ethel Gross and Harry Hopkins / Lexington Books:Jewish First Wife, Divorced collects the correspondence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal Relief Administrator, Harry Hopkins, and his Jewish first wife, Ethel Gross. These letters flirtatious and fond, quietly argumentative and terse reveal the significant influence of Progressivism on Harry Hopkins's political ideology and also the unique challenges for a professionally ambitious Jewish immigrant woman living in the early twentieth century.
Publication date: 2008-11-12
List Price: $56.99
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Review A Woman's Life-Work / IndyPublish:
Creator: Donald Mitchell
Publication date: 2008-05-29
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $90.00
Price: $57.52
Review Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976: Volume Four: 1952-1957 (Selected Letters of Britten) (Selected Letters of Britten) / Boydell Press:The fourth volume of the annotated selected letters of Benjamin Britten covers the years 1952-57, during which he wrote three major works for the stage - the Coronation opera Gloriana, the chamber opera The Turn of the Screw, and the full-length ballet The Prince of the Pagodas - as well as important vocal works such as Canticles II and III and the Hardy song-cycle Winter Words. Correspondents include librettists William Plomer (Gloriana) and Myfanwy Piper (The Turn of the Screw), and friends and collaborators such as Edith Sitwell, E. M. Forster, Basil Coleman, Imogen Holst, Francis Poulenc, Lennox Berkeley, the Earl of Harewood and Britten's partner and principal interpreter, Peter Pears. The volume charts Britten's growing stature as a major figure of the European musical establishment as composer, conductor and pianist, and his continuing involvement with the Aldeburgh Festival, the English Opera Group, and Covent Garden. Central to the period is the world trip undertaken by Britten and Pears and the first-hand encounter with the music and cultures of Bali and Japan that were radically to inform Britten's compositional techniques from Pagodas onwards. The comprehensive and scholarly annotations vividly evoke a key period in twentieth-century musical and cultural history, and offer a wide range of detailed information fascinating for both the Britten specialist and the general reader. Published in association with The Britten-Pears Foundation.
Creator: Russell C. Leong
Publication date: 2007-05
Dewey code: 378.7423
List Price: $57.95
Price: $57.00
Review Balancing Two Worlds: Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories / Cornell University Press:"Those who find themselves living in the Americas, no matter what their ethnic, educational, or economic background, must ultimately 'become their own personalities,' melding their point of view with their points of origin and their places of settlement. For immigrant or refugee families and their children, this 'process of becoming' often means struggling with the contradictions of race, generation, economics, class, work, religion, gender, and sexuality within the family, workplace, or school. Perhaps nowhere is the struggle more raw, poignant, and moving than in the words of the younger generation at the cusp of such becoming. We readers can also find insights within the candid accounts of their personal lives and in the experiences of their family and friends. "-from Balancing Two Worlds Balancing Two Worlds highlights themes surrounding the creation of Asian American identity. This book contains fourteen first-person narratives by Asian American college students, most of whom have graduated during the first five years of the twenty-first century. Their engaging accounts detail the students' very personal struggles with issues of assimilation, gender, religion, sexuality, family conflicts, educational stereotypes, and being labeled the "model minority. [+]" Some of the students relate stories drawn from their childhood and adolescent experiences, while others focus more on their college experiences at Dartmouth. Anyone who wants to learn about the changing concept of race in America and what it's like to be a young American of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Burmese, or South Asian descent-from educators and college administrators to students and their families-will find Balancing Two Worlds a compelling read and a valuable resource.
Authors
- Rudolf P Huebener
- Hans-georg Bartel
Dewey code: 541
List Price: $75.00
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Review Walther Nernst: Pioneer of Physics, And of Chemistry / World Scientific Publishing Company:More than 100 years ago, in 1905, Walther Nernst discovered the Third Law of Thermodynamics, thus completing this fundamental theory. In 1920 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The book describes the life of this pioneer of science, his major stations being Graz, then Göttingen, and finally Berlin. Also presented is a lively account of the development of low temperature physics by Nernst during the early days of quantum theory, when he was in Berlin, closely associated with Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Max von Laue. The book outlines the specific advances achieved by Nernst in the thermodynamic concepts of theoretical chemistry. Written for a general readership, it can also serve as a supplement for courses in physics and chemistry. In addition to the role of science in the life of Nernst, the impact of the political turmoil in Germany before and after the advent of the 20th century is also told.
Publication date: 1908
Review Clara Schumann: Ein Kunstlerleben, nach Tagebuchern und Briefen. Dritter Band: Clara Schumann und ihre Freunde, 1856-1896; mit zwei Bildnissen / Breitkopf & Hartel:In German; printed in Fraktur (or Gothic) type. Includes 2 portraits, name-index to vv. 1-3, an index of Clara Schumann's compositions, and a chronological list of her repertoire.
Publication date: 2008-10-10
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $56.99
Price: $56.99
Review The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2008-11-12
List Price: $56.99
Price: $56.99
Review Through Central Borneo / IndyPublish:The Head-Hunters of Borneo (OPB, #6. 95), Carl Bock's account of his expedition to the jungles of Central Borneo in the 1870s, so fired the imagination of fellow-Norwegian Carl Lumholtz that he repeated the journey in reverse between 1913 and 1917. Packed with details of river journeys, encounters with wild animals, and sojourns with headhunters, his own recollections of this largely unexplored region are just as exciting and informative.
Creator: Alice Ian
Edition: Special Library Edition, 7 - 1.5 Hour Audio Cassette
Publication date: 1986
Review A Man Called Peter / Books On Tape:
Creator: Hugh Page Taylor
Publication date: 2005-08-15
Dewey code: 940.548143
List Price: $48.95
Price: $56.88
Review For Germany: The Otto Skorzeny Memoirs / R. James Bender Publishing:Otto Skorzeny only rose to the rank of Colonel in the SS, yet is one of the best known and colorful figures of the Third Reich, in large part because of the faith Hitler had in the tall Austrian engineer. Many books have been written about his career, to include autobiographies, but before he died in 1975 he personally entrusted Bender Publishing with the formidable task of producing the most detailed, up-dated and best illustrated version of his incredible life story. A quarter of a century later, after painstaking research into the text and a hunt for unpublished illustrations, the ultimate story of Scarface Skorzeny, the most dangerous man in Europe and Hitler's commando extraordinary is finally available. Complete with an exhaustive index, providing biographical details not found in the text, this is likely to be the last word on this larger than life personality, one of the great characters of World War II.
Publication date: 2004
Price: $56.95
Review From the Point to the Cross:This is the life story of Chaplain (MAJ) Den Slattery, but it is much more than just another war story. This is the story of lessons one man learned through the school of hard knocks. Den holds several degrees in Psychology and an earned Doctorate degree. He is currently a pastor and lives with his wife and their four children in Michigan.
Creator: Michael Stone
Publication date: 2008-05-15
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $70.00
Price: $63.56
Review The Diary of John Longe, vicar of Coddenham, 1765-1834 (Suffolk Records Society) (Suffolk Records Society) / Boydell Press:An affluent and clubbable gentleman-parson of the Georgian age, for forty years John Longe contributed extensively to society in rural mid-Suffolk, heading a household which included ten domestic servants, plus farm staff. He enjoyed the company of his peers, both as host and guest, and travelled throughout the region, to Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds and his native Norwich. Besides preaching and leading worship, Longe trained young curates; marshalled his parishioners under threat of Napoleon's invasion; and fulfilled the onerous responsibilities of a magistrate, including supervision of the local House of Industry and turnpike trusts. John Longe recorded his activities, relationships and possessions in pocket-books and inventories, leaving a rich archive for posterity. It is these documents which are presented and transcribed here. They are accompanied by an extensive introduction, setting them in context; notes on the many individuals encountered; and full apparatus. The volume also includes plates and maps.
Publication date: 2004-04-05
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $24.95
Price: $56.94
Review Life, Love and Asparagus: First the Pain-Then comes Peace / PublishAmerica:One could expect an only child to be much loved and even spoiled. I didn’t feel either of these growing up. Even though as a child I was loved by some special people, it was the love of my mother that I dearly wanted. I have never even seen a picture of my father and finally met my mother at about the age of seven. I soon learned she wasn’t a loving person. This story is about a lifelong search for love and acceptance. God frequently put the right people in my path who showed me love. I am glad that I found that love is all around and I didn’t need to wait for my mother’s love. I would not write this until after my mother had been deceased a few years. I was afraid of her into my 40s and older. [+]I have been widowed twice, once at the age of 29 with my four children between the ages 3 to10, and again when I lost my husband Les in 2001 after 29 years. I have had a troubled life, but I feel so blessed. My children are all loving children and Les was the most wonderful man in my life.
Publication date: 2008-10-10
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $56.99
Price: $56.99
Review Community Civics and Rural Life / IndyPublish:
Authors
- Antoni Piza (ed.); William J. Summers; C
Edition: Hardcover
Publication date: 2007-05-01
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $75.00
Price: $57.00
Review J. B. Sancho / Studia Humanitatis Inc.:Juan Bautista Sancho (Arta, Mallorca, Spain, 1772 or 1776 Mission San Antonio, California, 1830) brought to California some of the first samples of XVIII century European music, including sacred plainchant, sacred polyphony, as well as opera excerpts and instrumental arrangements with basso continuo. In 1803, he arrived in Mexico from his native Mallorca and, in 1804, he settled in Mission San Antonio, where he remained until his death in 1830. He co-wrote a curious Interrogatorio, reporting on the conditions of the natives, their social customs, their local flora, and even their music. He also compiled vocabularies of several of their languages. As a composer, his Misa en Sol and Misa de los Angeles are among his best works. In addition to the essays (en English, Spanish, and Catalan) and the useful transcriptions, and a complete Thematic Catalog, this study includes a CD with an assortment of recordings such as the Misa de los Angeles, by Zephyr and the Gloria from the Misa en Sol, performed by Musica Angelica. The volume also contains an early 1959 American recording of the Misa de los Angeles by the Coro Hispanico de Mallorca (also known as Capella Classica), conducted by Joan Maria Thomas.
Publication date: 2006-09-30
Dewey code: 595
List Price: $57.50
Price: $57.50
Review MTmoires Entomologiques: ParamTmoires D'un Timarchophile / Pensoft Pub:
Publication date: 1997-11
Dewey code: 920
Price: $12.00
Review Released from the Web / Minerva Press Ltd.:
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Slide Rule, Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (Gender and American Culture), At the Foot of Rawlins Mountain, Jewish First Wife, Divorced: The Correspondence of Ethel Gross and Harry Hopkins, A Woman's Life-Work, Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976: Volume Four: 1952-1957 (Selected Letters of Britten) (Selected Letters of Britten), Balancing Two Worlds: Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories, Walther Nernst: Pioneer of Physics, And of Chemistry, Clara Schumann: Ein Kunstlerleben, nach Tagebuchern und Briefen. Dritter Band: Clara Schumann und ihre Freunde, 1856-1896; mit zwei Bildnissen, The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself, Through Central Borneo, A Man Called Peter, For Germany: The Otto Skorzeny Memoirs, From the Point to the Cross, The Diary of John Longe, vicar of Coddenham, 1765-1834 (Suffolk Records Society) (Suffolk Records Society), Life, Love and Asparagus: First the Pain-Then comes Peace, Community Civics and Rural Life, J. B. Sancho, MTmoires Entomologiques: ParamTmoires D'un Timarchophile, Released from the WebTop headlines: Governors pledge fight on global warming: Gov. 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